19 AUGUST 1922, Page 2

On Saturday, Mr. Arthur Griffith, the President of Dail Eireann,

and the virtual founder of the Sinn Fein Movement, died suddenly in Dublin of cerebral hemorrhage. As the leader of moderate opinion in Southern Ireland, Mr. Griffith could ill be spared at the present juncture, for those who knew him believed that he was desirous of meeting Ulster half-way. The Southern Unionists who had had dealings with him during the past two years found him sympathetic and straightforward, and in the extremely trying position in which they had been placed by recent events they looked to Arthur Griffith more than to anyone else to see that their interests were not ignored.